Iowa State forward Melvin Ejim (3) walks off the court after an NCAA college basketball game against Kansas, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in Ames, Iowa. Kansas won 77-70. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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Snow was falling here Thursday afternoon. But the sky wasn't on two very talented basketball programs.

Long-range shots? They're not falling, and that's a reason Iowa State's nationally relevant programs - a week ago at this time standing tall as the country's lone big-school unbeatens - have seen combined 28-0 records become 28-4.

"I was talking to one of the girls in the training room," men's star DeAndre Kane said of a Thursday conversation. "They lost in the same way that we lost. ...